NOVANEWS by Peter Bosshard 1. 50,000 Large Dams Are Clogging the World’s Rivers: About 50,000 dams with a height of 15 meters or more and millions of smaller dams have been built on the world’s rivers. Some of […]
NOVANEWS Despite repeated calls to end the war completely, president lays out plan for continued US presence well beyond 2014 – Lauren McCauley President Obama announcing plans to keep nearly 10,000 troops in Afghanistan. (Screenshot […]
NOVANEWS by Hakim Mi Ryang, standing with Gangjeong Village Association members and Gangjeong’s mayor, outside the Jeju Courts, to refuse paying fines for protests against the U.S. naval base construction. (Courtesy of the author)“Don’t you touch […]
NOVANEWS Despite polling that Americans think that the Afghanistan War was a mistake and is definitely not worth fighting, the Obama administration is poised to announce its plans to leave 9,800 troops and an unknown […]
NOVANEWS The Unreported Story of How the Haqqani Network Became America’s Greatest Enemy by Anand Gopal It was a typical Kabul morning. Malik Ashgar Square was already bumper-to-bumper with Corolla taxis, green police jeeps, honking minivans, […]
NOVANEWS To the Honorable Navanethem Pillay High Commissioner for Human Rights Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais Wilson 52 rue des Pâquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland. RE: War Crimes Committed […]
NOVANEWS Rising Above Vengeance by KATHY KELLY In late January in a room in Kabul, Afghanistan, I joined several dozen people, working seamstresses, some college students, socially engaged teenagers and a few visiting internationals […]
NOVANEWS Major Streatfeild commanded a company of riflemen fighting the Taliban Says many shot and killed as a result posed no risk to British forces Streatfeild condemns ‘turkey shoot’ tactics that led to ‘repetitive slaughter’ […]
NOVANEWS by Ghafoor Saboory Presidential candidate Zalmai Rassoul pledged to combat militancy and corruption effectively if elected president on Tuesday in front of his supporters in Kunduz. Rassoul’s first vice president Ahmad Zia Masoud, who […]
NOVANEWS Sunday, 23 March 2014 18:17Last Updated on Sunday, 23 March 2014 18:32Written by Aazem Arash On Sunday President Karzai announced in a meeting with the US congressional delegation that Afghanistan respects the decision made […]